Mortals Quotes - Page 23

• If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Spiritual, Achievement, Development

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922). “Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.”

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• The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.

  L. Tom Perry

  Men, Joy, Preparation

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• Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  Shadow, Sun, Environment

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• We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Country, War, Heart

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• Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.

  Robert Boyle

  Beauty, Hurt, Passion

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• Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  May, Desperate, Success And Failure

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.78, tredition

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• What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?

  Flora Thompson

  Taken, Meals, Loving Friends

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.506, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Yes, there is a Government of this changing world. The Government is not in the changing world. It is in the Realm of Permanence, and though the Realm of Permanence pervades this world of change, it cannot be seen by mortal eyes.

  Harold Percival

  Eye, Government, World

  Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.127, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of a child's smile, of dust motes in the sun. He is who He is, and always shall be. Look around you now. He is speaking always and everywhere. His personality can be seen and known and leaned upon. The sun is belching flares while mountains scrape our sky while ants are milking aphids on their colonial leaves and dolphins are laughing in the surf and wheat is rippling and wind is whipping and a boy is looking into the eyes of a girl and mortals are dying.

  N.D. Wilson

  Girl, Children, Eye

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.162, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.
  [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach
  In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Race, Dizzy, Weakness

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• There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Iron, Suffering

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• The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

  John Milton

  Spirit, Easy, Intercourse

  John Milton (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.218

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• Is it not in accordance with divine order that every mortal is thrown into that situation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to his own view, that he may know them, acknowledge them, struggle against them, and put them away?

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Struggle, Divine Order, Views

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• To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

  Samuel Parr

  Friendship, Men, Imperfect

  Samuel Parr, John Johnstone (1828). “The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.514

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• Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.

  Rosario Ferre

  Crush, Death, Wise

  Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books

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• Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

  Ice Cube

  Steps, Next, Movie Sets

  "Ice Cube and Kevin Hart pair up for a ride". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2014.

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• By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!

  Edward Furlong

  Men, Thinking, Tire

  Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 14, 2005.

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• At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Doubt, Growth, Use

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Lying, Real

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• I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

  Plutarch

  Veils, Raised

  Plutarch (1889). “Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical Essays”

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• To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

  George Eliot

  Stupidity, Social, Unendurable

  George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.579, Collector's Library

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• People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

  Don DeLillo

  Art, People, Glimpse

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories”, p.183, Pan Macmillan

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• Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

  Omar Khayyam

  Drinking, Sleep, Heaven

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• Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being.

  James Dobson

  Motivation, Mean, Men

  James C. Dobson (2012). “When God Doesn't Make Sense”, p.24, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Philosophy, Giving, Judging

  Benjamin N. Cardozo (2012). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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